[Engine-devel] Question about the attribute lunType (LUNs)

[Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim at redhat.com]
> Sent: terça-feira, 30 de julho de 2013 07:12
> To: Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org; Leonardo Bianconi
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Question about the attribute lunType (LUNs)
> 
> On 07/29/2013 09:06 PM, Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > The QEMU/KVM on IBM POWER does not support iSCSI yet. This requires
> > the implementation of methods that evaluate if a Disk is a iSCSI LUN
> > or not, in order to avoid its use in this specific architecture.
> > Looks like this can be determined by the attribute lunType (which is
> > of the type StorageType, an Enum) of the class LUNs. But when I
> > retrieve the object, the attribute lunType has the value "UNKNOWN",
> > even if I've setted it with another value. In the class
> > LunDAODbFacadeImpl there is not a call to the "entity.setLunType"
> method.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to retrieve the attribute lunType? Is the
> "UNKNOW"
> > value a bug?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Leonardo Bianconi/Vitor de Lima/Gustavo Pedrosa
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> Gustavo - what are you trying to achieve exactly? not allowing iscsi storage
> domains for ppc, or direct lun type disks (or something else)?
> 
> Thanks,
>     Itamar



Hello Itamar,

The QEMU/KVM on IBM POWER does not support direct LUN disks (i.e. -drive file=iscsi://ip_address/target/1), so this kind of device cannot be available on the frontend.

Thanks,
Leonardo Bianconi/Vitor de Lima/Gustavo Pedrosa